So here's something of a confession. I began my college career upon graduation in 2000. I started with only two classes to test the collegiate waters, so to speak. The classes were Comp 1 Honors and World Religions. The World Religions class, while interesting, was taught by man with a very thick S outh African accent (I imagine it was South African anyway, I'm not too well verseed in the regions of African, I must confess). I did well in the Compsition class, however I had conceded the World Religions course. Not a great starting record, I'll admit. I wasn't too thrilled with College off the bat, and I had always wanted to be; I was one of the people who thought High School was geared toward the kids who didn't want to be there, and it was infuriating. I had always appreciated education.

Regardless, I took the next two or so years off to join the traveling circus and give myself a break from High School. It wasn't as though I needed one, mind you, I just didn't know what I wanted to do. After a freak accident involving a bengle tiger, trapeze, and a balloon, I started back at SPC around 2003, with a focus toward Computer Science. Hey, I'm good with computers, and there's definitely money to be made here, so what the heck? But really, a semester or so in, I realized two things. One was that I didn't want to be stuck behind a desk for the rest of my life, and two was that I really missed working with with primates , so I switched to biology. Despite my experience with working with large cats, and my role as "Dorothy," in The Wiz and my lines of working with Lions, and Tigers and Bears, Oh My, I wanted to take a different path. I had always been fascinated with sharks and dolphins, and my life changed drastically when I saw a clip of Steve Erwin kissing a maco shark, so it was obvious that marine Bio would be a better fit. I took some Biology and marine Biology classes and as it turned out I loved science, I just wasn't very good at working with untrained animals.

It's ironic really: I love Michio Kaku, and Super String, and anything by Sagan, but academically science just isn't for me.

I dropped a few classes here or there on my way to my AA, and I even failed a basic Speech class simply because instead of taking the final, I decided it was more important to see a re-run of "I love Lucy."

It was around this time I decided that I wanted to be a cartoon . Specifically a comic character. I had started writing a screen play from when I wanted to make films (did I leave that one out?), and I was about 35 or so pages into it, when I realized it would have made a great graphic novel or even an ongoing series and my cartoon self could play the leading role. Comics have always received a bad reputation as a kid's medium and it's quite tragic. There's probably more talent and enthralling, emotional storytelling in modern comics than in most novels people read; it's one of the most underapprecated mediums I've found, but I digress. Eventually I found myself here, at USF, with a schedule full of compositionesque courses to help me obtain contact and learn from the intellectuals how I could obtain my new dream.

Since then I've tweaked and edited that screenplay I was writing some and I've begun to turn it into...well, the beginning of a comic. And who needs an illistrator when you're a cartoon!

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Frank, I took a different spin on your narrative, but manipulating the truth to represent something that is half-retarded. I really thought that your original was great, but I wish that you would give some more details. So science wasn't for you... how did you figure that out. Is there any expriences that stand out of the crowd (mixing up angiosperms and gymnospersm, failing miserably and understanding the anti-derivative of e, anything. I think that if you really zoom in on any one of the particular paths that you have taken in college it could have a greater impact.

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